Edgar harbison



(No Model.)

E. HARRISON.

BREEGH LOADING FIREARM.

No. 404,082. Patented May 28, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR HARRISON, OF NEIV BOND STREET, COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND.

BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,082, dated May 28, 1889. Application filed September 8, 1888. Serial No. 284,870. (No model.)

To all whom it 12mg concern-.-

Be it known that I, EDGAR HARRISON, gunmaker, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at New Bond Street, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms, of which the following is a specification.

In my improvements the barrel is hinged to the stock or housing so that the front end swings down and the breech opens upwardly, and the cartridge-ejector is acted upon by a spring to move it backwardly when the breech is opened. These parts are well known and do not require further description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of so much of the gun mechanism as will be necessary to explain my improvements and showing the parts in the cocked position. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the same mechanism in the fired position. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the bed; and Fig. 4: is a perspective view illustrating a portion of the mechanism detached, as hereinafter described.

I employ a lever, A B, fulerumed at H, and the forward arm, A, of such lever is so arranged that it engages in or disengages from a notch, O, in the ejector-leg D. There is a projection, E, on the rear arm, B, of the lever A B, working in a slot or recess, F, (see Figs. 3 and 4,) and against a shoulder in the metal of the housing or action, and the said rear arm, B, of the lever is acted on by the mainspring G when the hammer I is disengaged from the trigger-sear, because said mainspring slides forward from the position in Fig. 1 to that in Fig. 2 and the folded end of such mainspring runs over such arm B.

On firing the gun the mainspring G slides forward and the folded end thereof comes against the rear end, B, of the lever, and thus depresses the same and causes it to turn and raises its fore end, A, into the notch O in the extractor-leg D. On opening the gun the mainspring G is withdrawn from the sear-leverA B during the action of cooking the hammer I.

When the gun is sufficiently opened for the exploded shell to clear the parts, the projection E on the rear end of the lever (which projection E has been traveling down the recess or slot F in the inclosure or housing in front of the joint-pin) catches in or is arrested by the end of said recess or slot, thereby depressing the fore end, A, of the lever and withdrawing the same from the slot or notch O inthe extractor-leg D, which latter flies out suddenly, and so ejects the cartridge.

On opening the gun, if the same has not been fired, the mainspring G not having moved endwise to engage itself with the rear end, B, of lever A B, the fore end, A, of the said lever remains depressed in its normal position and away from the notch G in the extractor-leg D, so that as the gun is opened the extractor travels out at a slow and regular pace, and thus only loosens the loaded cartridge without ejecting it, and in such manner that it can be removed with ease by the hand.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, in a breech-loading fire-arm having a housing and a barrel that is pivoted thereto and swings downwardly as the breech opens upwardly, of an extractor having a leg extending along below the barrel and notched on its under side, the mainspring and hammer, and the lever A B, the forward end of which is adapted to take the notched leg and the rear end to be acted upon by the movement of the mainspring, there being a projection, E, at one side of the lever A B that comes into contact with the housing as the breech is opened to disconnect the lever from the notched leg, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the breech-loading fire-arm having a hinged barrel, of the ejector having a notched leg, D, in combination with the lever A B, having a projection, E, within a recess, F, and the hammer I, and mainspring receiving an endwise movement when the firing takes place, so as to act upon the portion B of the lever and cause the part to engage the leg D of the ejector, substantially as set forth.

EDGAR HARRISON.

Witnesses:

E. S. BREWER,

33 Chancery Lame, London. WALTER J. SKERTEN,

17 Gracechwch St, London, E. 0. 

